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Hoshi Stars星

The stars you can see without a telescope, with names, colours and distances; the 88 constellations with their lines and boundaries; the Messier objects; and seven map projections to draw them on.

Hoshi is the Japanese word 星 for a star. About the name

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Reference · The host stars of confirmed exoplanets worth a visit: place, distance, and each planet's name and orbital period

ExoplanetHostSourcetype

Where a value of a host star comes from: "BSC" the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, "GCTP" the Yale General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes, "2MASS" the Two Micron All Sky Survey, or "typed" a published value typed into the package (TRAPPIST-1's parallax, from its papers).

Import it

import type { ExoplanetHostSource } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/exoplanet-hosts";

Definition

type ExoplanetHostSource = "BSC" | "GCTP" | "2MASS" | "typed";

Examples

import { exoplanetHostByName, type ExoplanetHostSource } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/exoplanet-hosts";

const source: ExoplanetHostSource = exoplanetHostByName("Proxima Centauri")!.sources.position;
console.log(source);
2MASS

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars 0.47.0.